Donovan Smith reacts to his first game and his first play, which resulted in a sack.

The crazy stats nerds screamed left and right last year about how left tackle Anthony Collins was a superstar-in-waiting because their spreadsheets claimed he didn’t give up a sack in 2013.

What the hell good was that worth? [read more]

Bucs G Logan Mankins talks about the status of the offensive line.

Guard Logan Mankins stopped after practice today to chat with the Tampa Bay pen and mic club to discuss the Bucs and, more importantly, the state of the Bucs’ offensive line. [read more]

It was an underwear football day at Bucs practice this afternoon –no hitting with Tampa Bay coming off a Saturday night preseason game.

Joe’s got highlights. [read more]

Everything Joe has heard from key sources about Demar Dotson’s knee injury claims the Bucs’ right tackle is expected back on the field in a couple of months.

But a new and different report from a former Bucs guard is making the rounds quickly on Twitter. [read more]

Your new Bucs starting MLB.

Well, that didn’t take very long, did it?

Less than a day after Lovie Smith crowed that middle linebacker Kwon Alexander played “outstanding” in his first NFL preseason game, Alexander was tagged as the starting MLB until or unless he is beaten out for the job.

And we all know how stingy Lovie is about passing around compliments, right Johnthan Banks? [read more]

Chiefs left tackle Eric Fisher went down in practice today, and it seems that brought the simmering market for free agent Gosder Cherilus to a full boil. [read more]

Jameis showed Saturday night he is not immobile.

Joe remembers through the NFL Scouting Combine and leading up to the draft, the haters out hollering themselves hoarse for the Bucs not to draft “America’s Quarterback,” Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, because he was slow and immobile. [read more]

Akeem Spence told Joe “a mistake” he made led to marijuana possession charges and a speeding ticket for traveling more than 100 miles per hour. [read more]

Jacquies Smith and Bucs defensive ends didn’t pressure Teddy Bridgewater but did good things, explains a former Buccaneer.

There’s no panic in Anthony Becht, the former Bucs tight end and 11-year, NFL veteran.

He thought Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, played fine on Saturday night, just what Becht expected in the preseason opener. [read more]

Bucs rookie left tackle Donovan Smith

Joe was so shaken by the following that it took Joe 36 hours to address it directly. [read more]

Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers

One benefit of Joe being in Minnesota for Saturday’s game was getting a chance to view the Bucs’ sidelines before and during the game. For example, Joe saw Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, do a Victor Cruz-like salsa dance a few minutes prior to kickoff. [read more]

It’s time for reserve tackle Kevin Pamphile to show up.

Last year, the Bucs drafted Kevin Pamphile and Kadeem Edwards in the fifth-round. Joe dubbed them the “Milk Cartons,” as their faces may as well have been on a half-gallon containers at Publix.

They were MIA on the football field for a team desperate for offensive line help. [read more]

The debut of Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, was quite an event across the Tampa Bay area Saturday, and the TV-ratings numbers match up to the hope-driven euphoria not seen around here in a decade.

Joe’s got data. [read more]

Former starting right tackle speaks out.

How unnerved Bucs fans are after watching a jailbreak of an offensive line send “America’s Quarterback,” Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, running for his life in the first preseason game, and seeing right tackle Demar Dotson go down.

Many fans are actually crying for unemployed Evan Mathis to play right tackle. [read more]

So it seems like the knee injury to Demar Dotson is enough that the Bucs are bringing in unemployed veteran tackle Gosder Cherilus to potentially fill the hole in Dotson’s absence. [read more]

Lovie feared for the safety of “America’s Quarterback” last night.

The offensive line is a work in progress, you saw what Joe saw last night. And with Garrett Gilkey playing center, Joe was downright frightened for the well-being of “America’s Quarterback,” Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston. [read more]

Lovie talks about Demar Dotson’s potential replacement

It seems Bucs right tackle Demar Dotson will be out an expected eight weeks due to a left knee sprain. That’s the word per the Twitter feed of Greg Auman of the Tampa Bay Times. [read more]